In a mesmerising blend of art and mathematics, a research student from University College London (UCL) has recently gained widespread attention for creating intricate images solely through ...

A detail of the Mandelbrot set, a fractal named after Benoit Mandelbrot, the French mathematician who investigated it in the 1970s. If you were to zoom in at any point on the intricate, wiggly line, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Computer programs enable us to create works ...

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) made us a great gift last week. It announced that a collaboration between a French mathematician and a Belgian artist has resulted in math animations that ...

The symbolic language of mathematics can be beautiful—but even more striking are some of the patterns and forms that arise from the visual representation of math. The power of mathematical images ...

A photo contest will show the enormous number of applications of mathematics in our daily lives thanks to the talent of the participants who will send their images from any country in the world. The ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...